Electronic Reserves on the web

[Bob Jones]

First, let me clarify:  I never intended that faculty *MUST* bypass the 
library,  Brian's *BOTH* discussion is right-on.

While reading Brian's discussion, the following occurred to me:

1.  Maybe libraries should be contacting their campus legal departments 
to alert them to the vulnerabilities this situation is conjuring.  
Certainly, the libraries should be willing to participate, if asked, at 
the campus level (with the computing people, the bookstore(s), Deans, 
Directors, Faculty, etc.) to troubleshoot the issue.

2.  To be the viable, logical center for e-reserves libraries must have 
the solution installed and available *BEFORE* the need.  If faculty must 
wait until the library figures out what they need to do to meet their 
needs, the faculty won't wait -- and shouldn't be expected to.

3.  In this day and time, I don't consider the library's catalog to be the
single point of access used by students.  With faculty and students
becoming more and more WWW literate, perhaps the professor's course page
is the single point needed.  Until library catalogs can take a user to its
holdings, *AND* connect to a Web Page, *AND* do a telnet to another
resource, *AND* allow the student to have email discussions with his/her
teacher, then students will probably use their home computers and computer
labs to be the first level of support, and they will use their library's
catalog as but one resource available to them. 

I *AM* enjoying this discussion!

Bob Jones                                    mailto://bjones@unf.edu
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On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Brian Nielsen wrote:

> [cross-posted to arl-ereserve at cni.org, as I think the issue is of interest
> there.]
> 
> In reply to:
> >> While this no doubt is happening, I'd prefer to see a system
> >> linked to an OPAC, or at least maintained by the library.
> >
> >I don't have a problem with faculty bypassing the library for this
> (quoted in full below)
> 
> My view of the faculty-doing-it-on-their-own versus the library doing an
> e-reserve system is not as cut-and-dried.  While I do agree with Bob below